IDLE LAND-IDLE MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 274, 18 November 1910, Page 6

IDLE LAND-IDLE MEN.

I ~- ,(To the EUitorj. ". ;abfe^^fl^pi^ _ of our modern society — ur_ h_.i i petition-so long WilUoekiln Wm " 1 to damn h,.ma&tv>' ilfit 0 ? 11^ reasbhably' ascribe a » I Black Hole of Calcutu WWSIB, , tion for air, for the conoW mW&m *hi% f^%!ll|S no more free nOr " unchecked" 19 ! obtain^SVe^iSL 9 v The only in the one case the.people w_PwE§i ; from one prime necessitybf '_S_*F^* other prime necessity of lay , Mr. Boden refers to the constant rtrife 'between the Workers and "the *n_v.™* J rather have said "the idle M . classes." -But for the existence bit* idle landed" class which holds land id]? ! and thereby holds labour idle, we sb 2 : have none of the "chaotic, chronic toil- : tragic unemployment" either in ErmS . or elsewhere; and, without thislfcS .unemployment,, pthe .capitalist dass'wo-A ■ be powerless to exploit the workers a_l "the idle monied classes * would isoon disappear. If Mr. Boden' doubt 1 ttiMei him study the final' bP_-_ Marx's "Capital,''.the of which is an aisnissibn '..at ,ta£lsjjft£''g|, my contention. ..''_' ' .".*■- . The land -is the one rieser'vbir'o{!feej_& the one field for . Those who monopolise this, reservoir tinj j one field for employment, bave iiie i i era at their mercy. Break' j™w_?Efirlifisj riers of monopoly which fence the —ham and fence labour out, break by the taxation p_ land" values,- ami abolish ._t the sanle::t4m v ;all labour and on labour products; and'—ai labour wiR be free and .hidependeiit, au) can'be exploited by none.—- etc,'.ARfTHUR WITH., j (Gen. Sec. TS.Z. Land Values Leagueili r Wadestown, Nov. 11, 1910. ■ »'